A new exhibition in New Jersey of Samuel Fosso’s subversive self-portraiture mixes history, politics, religion, and culture – all while examining complexly layered aspects of Black identity.
, or transforming into fictional characters like the businessman, the American feminist, and the African chief forseries offer critical perspectives of the Black experience liberated from the narrow confined of the white gaze.
Working with Silma Berrada, Lawrence Chamunorwa, Maia Julis, and Iheanyi Onwuegbucha, Okeke-Agulu has curated the artist’s first major US survey,, which is on at Art on Hulfish. Organised by Princeton University Art Museum in collaboration with the Walther Collection,traces the artist’s evolution over the past half century as he imagines the subjectivities of Black experience through his own body.
Fosso uses photography as a tool of postcolonial critique to examine the interconnectedness of modern life through the dual lens of Pan-Africanism and foreign influence from both the East and the West.Okeke-Agulu points to a much deeper line that runs through his practice: the fundamental issue of displacement he experienced in his youth.Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr. Memorial Collection Fund. © Samuel Fosso.
Although Fosso is deeply attuned to the zeitgeist, he is not beholden to fashionable topics but rather has a clear vision of himself, who he is, and how he exists in the world. When exploring intensely personal work, Fosso moves beneath the surface to inhabit the profoundly spiritual spaces to capture the most ephemeral and ethereal aspects of existence itself.
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